Live from the State of the Planet conference, an anonymous tipster with photography skills leads us to believe that the event may be… less than scintillating.   Jeff Sachs reads the news and checks his email, after the jump. Slacking off on laptops during lectures — professors: they’re just like us!

Columbia loses sight of its friendship with Floridita, suddenly demands $128,000. The university then promptly forgets to make sure people can use its housing lottery software. Drunkenly sketching on a bar napkin, Columbia proposes a seven block long, seven-story underground fortress, and tells Nick Sprayregen to, quote, “shut up.” It then appears to call Barnard […]

We’re one day in to Michelle Diamond’s CCSC’s big off-campus flex adventure, and cold reality is beginning to set in. Bwog’s deep and meticulous investigation of anecdotes solicited from fellow Bwoggers shows that CUID transactions are drawn-out processes that challenge the patience of the already rather impatient cashiers at local eateries. Justin Vlasits reports that […]

Bwog once again guides you to the weekend with a slew of events to choose from, including some great ongoing events. Disclaimer: any events sold out were indeed not sold out at the time of compilation. Also, these will be up earlier next week — we apologize in the meantime.   TONIGHT The Secret Society […]

Bwog was especially delighted to stumble upon this week’s New Yorker. Not only does one Talk of the Town article discuss the decision to dismantle Columbia’s Cyclotron—which, we learned, was actually gutted in 1965 and mostly shipped off to the Smithsonian in bits and pieces—the author of the piece is Kate Linthicum, BC ’08 and […]

Under the sterling aegis of Jeffrey Sachs, we can make this the bestest world ever!! A letter from the editor about the poorest, richest girls The meta-est Eyepoke ever, in which a campus blog links to a campus magazine article about a campus magazine The best-written review of the worst book ever The tastiest-sounding review […]

Ah, the change of the seasons! A dash of color on a landscape of concrete and leafless brittle trees! An opportunity for no snark at all. Enjoy this, the habitual replanting of the flowers, with us. Photo by Zach van Schouwen

Tipster Rick Betita noticed that Barack Obama is in New York City today, delivering a speech about the  economy at—where else?—Cooper Union. Obama was introduced to the crowd by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. In the speech, Obama explained his rationale for visiting Cooper Union: “In a city of landmarks, we meet at Cooper […]

For people to learn the name of the chancellor of the largest school system in the country For ’68 fever to wear off. Well, maybe the first event of the season is a little early for that. For the end of journalism For the epic flooding of Manhattan For all of the above to seep […]

Just seconds ago at the ‘Stend—amidst a crowd that at 10:30 PM consisted of a dozen people awkwardly milling about, but soon increased to several dozen—2008’s Columbia College Class Day speaker was announced. Joel Klein, CC ’67, is the Chancellor of the NYC Department of Education and by the looks of it, quite obviously the […]

Mad nostalgia for the mid-90s is standard by now, and unsurprisingly many Bwoggers have devolved back to their 9-year-old selves, reveling in the joys of Nintendo 64 and Mario Kart in particular. Though our early Karting experience was largely a tale of character-building losses to nimbler-fingered cousins, we have trained a bit among ourselves and […]

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, Kennedy School of Government scholar Samantha Power graced the halls of Columbia’s Law School last night for a discussion with Columbia Journalism professor Bill Berkeley. Power demonstrated the poise and careful articulation of words for which she has typically been known (the recent “monstergate” debacle notwithstanding), and she expressed the hope that […]

At 10:30PM tonight, at Havana Central at the West End, the bigwigs of the Class of 2008 will announce the seniors’ Class Day Speaker. Last year, Ben Stein, CC’66, reportedly demanded a large cash sum, Barack Obama, CC’83, seemingly blew us off, and we ended up with Lost star Matthew Fox, CC’89, a controversial choice […]

This just in: Colin Drummond’s CC ’09 Campaign will use 10% fewer posters after promising a poster-less campaign.  This is coming after Mark Johnson, current CC ’09 Vice President, submitted a rules violation due to early publication of this website.  The Elections Board felt that the violation was “not malicious, intentional, or fundamentally unfair,” so […]

This week’s Newsweek cover story is a piece on Barack Obama, CC ’83. Usually reticent to discuss his years at Alma Mater, Obama talks about his reasoning for transferring from Occidental College to Columbia, “By the end of that year at Occidental, I think I was starting to work it through, and I think part […]